On the evening of April 30, 2019, 27-year-old Dwayne J. Sutton was fatally shot while riding in the back seat of a Mitsubishi sedan in Kansas City, Missouri. The car had recently left a motel near 63rd Street and Missouri 350 after the driver picked up Sutton and a front-seat passenger, Carl L. Farnsworth Jr., who witnesses said began behaving erratically and claiming someone had stolen his money. Sutton tried to calm Farnsworth, but the situation escalated and the driver later saw blood on Sutton’s face and Farnsworth holding a firearm.

The driver took the vehicle to a BP at 4009 Blue Ridge Cutoff. Farnsworth handed the gun to the driver and ran toward a nearby Burger King; surveillance showed him entering the restaurant and then attempting to flee when officers arrived. Police found Sutton dead in the back seat from gunshot wounds. Investigators recovered a .40 caliber handgun and a spent casing under the front passenger seat and a 9mm handgun near Sutton in the back seat. Prosecutors charged Carl L. Farnsworth Jr. with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest; records indicated he was a convicted felon barred from firearm possession at the time.

Did anyone who knew Sutton or was in that area that night see the car before it reached Interstate 435 and Eastwood Trafficway?